Academic staff of the University of T\u00fcbingen

Hans_Albrecht_Bethe

Hans Albrecht Bethe (German pronunciation: [ˈhans ˈbeːtə] ; July 2, 1906 – March 6, 2005) was a German-American theoretical physicist who made major contributions to nuclear physics, astrophysics, quantum electrodynamics, and solid-state physics, and who won the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis. For most of his career, Bethe was a professor at Cornell University.During World War II, he was head of the Theoretical Division at the secret Los Alamos laboratory that developed the first atomic bombs. There he played a key role in calculating the critical mass of the weapons and developing the theory behind the implosion method used in both the Trinity test and the "Fat Man" weapon dropped on Nagasaki in August 1945.
After the war, Bethe also played an important role in the development of the hydrogen bomb, although he had originally joined the project with the hope of proving it could not be made. Bethe later campaigned with Albert Einstein and the Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists against nuclear testing and the nuclear arms race. He helped persuade the Kennedy and Nixon administrations to sign, respectively, the 1963 Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty and 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (SALT I).
His scientific research never ceased and he was publishing papers well into his nineties, making him one of the few scientists to have published at least one major paper in his field during every decade of his career, which in Bethe's case spanned nearly seventy years. Freeman Dyson, once his doctoral student, called him the "supreme problem-solver of the 20th century".

Friedrich_von_Huene

Friedrich von Huene, born Friedrich Richard von Hoinigen, (22 March 1875 – 4 April 1969) was a German paleontologist who renamed more dinosaurs in the early 20th century than anyone else in Europe. He also made key contributions about various Permo-Carboniferous limbed vertebrates.

Julius_Weizsäcker

Julius Ludwig Friedrich Weizsäcker (13 February 1828 in Öhringen – 3 September 1889 in Bad Kissingen) was a German historian. He specialized in medieval history and early modern history. A member of the distinguished Weizsäcker family, his brother was the Protestant theologian Karl Heinrich Weizsäcker.
He studied theology and history at the University of Tübingen, obtaining his habilitation in 1859. He was successively a professor of history at the universities of Erlangen (from 1863), Tübingen (from 1867), Strasbourg (from 1872), Göttingen (from 1876) and Berlin (from 1881).

Ernst_von_Herzog

Ernst von Herzog (23 November 1834, Esslingen am Neckar – 16 November 1911) was a German classical philologist and archaeologist, who as an expert in the field of Roman epigraphy.
He studied theology and classical philology at the University of Tübingen, and afterwards continued his education at the University of Munich. From 1857 he worked as a tutor in Paris, then studied archaeology at Berlin, followed by research at the German Archaeological Institute in Rome. In 1861 he conducted studies of ancient Roman inscriptions in southern France. In 1862 he obtained his habilitation for classical philology at Tübingen, where in 1867 he became an associate professor, followed by a full professorship in classical philology in 1874. Herzog was a prominent member of the Reichs-Limeskommission (German Limes Commission) and of the Römisch-Germanische Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts (Roman-Germanic Commission of the German Archaeological Institute).As a result of his scientific research in France, he published a book on the history of Gallia Narbonensis titled "Galliae narbonensi Commis provinciae Romanae historia descriptio institutorum expositio" (1864). In his studies associated with Limes Germanicus, he conducted archaeological excavations at several sites in Württemberg — Rottenburg am Neckar (1883–84), near Öhringen (1892), and Mainhardt and Jagsthausen (1893).He was the author of a well-received work on the history and structure of the Roman Constitution, titled "Geschichte und system der Römischen Staatsverfassung" (2 volumes; 1884, 1891). In 1871 he published "Untersuchungen über die bildungsgeschichte der griechischen und lateinischen sprache" (Studies on the educational history of Greek and Latin languages).

Paul_Thieme

Paul Thieme (German: [paʊl ˈtiːmə]; 18 March 1905 – 24 April 2001) was a German Indologist and scholar of Vedic Sanskrit. In 1988 he was awarded the Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy for "he added immensely to our knowledge of Vedic and other classical Indian literature and provided a solid foundation to the study of the history of Indian thought".

Erich_Kamke

Erich Kamke (18 August 1890 – 28 September 1961) was a German mathematician, who specialized in the theory of differential equations. Also, his book on set theory became a standard introduction to the field.